During the last week Chandra completed the observing schedule as
planned.

Chandra passed through a 30 minute lunar eclipse on Feb 6 with nominal
power and thermal performance. A real-time procedure was run to uplink
a contingency command load to activate a set of load heaters prior to
the eclipse after a review of the onboard loads indicated that the
commanding had not been included as planned. A review is underway to
understand why the commanding was not included and identify future
corrective action.

Real time procedures were executed on Feb 5 and 6 to set the short
eclipse flag to "short" prior to the eclipse and then back to the
default "medium" setting following the eclipse. SCS-29 was also
disabled on Feb 6 following the eclipse.

A real-time procedure was executed on Feb 7 to perform a routine
self-check of the Electrical Interface Assembly (EIA) Sequencer.

A Chandra image release was issued on Feb 5 of the elliptical galaxy
NGC 1132. The combined Chandra and Hubble image shows the hot, diffuse
gas detected by Chandra and a giant foreground elliptical galaxy, plus
numerous dwarf galaxies in its neighborhood, and many much more
distant background galaxies detected by Hubble. For details see:
http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2008/ngc1132/

The schedule of targets for the next week is shown below and includes
an observation of M87 coordinated with HST.